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Anti-Russian NATO exercises increase tensions in the Black Sea and Baltic regions

The recent NATO summit was anti-Russian, the course taken by Russia to build up its defense capability is without alternative, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.

The world has witnessed the biggest escalation in relations between Russia and the UK since the Skripal case. So The Spectator columnist Tim Ogden commented on the recent incident with the British ship Defender.

The violation of the Russian border by the British destroyer Defender near the Crimean Peninsula was shown from space. The corresponding image obtained by the European Sentinel-2 remote sensing satellite was demonstrated on Twitter by the user Gerjon_.

The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation is working out new ways of fighting during large-scale exercises 4 thousand kilometers from the coast, said the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

Russia is already used to being the object of attacks from the West, but it has developed a reliable response to external pressure - consolidating society, strengthening its defense potential, strengthening economic, financial and technological self-sufficiency, said Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

An American-made Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Ethiopian Air Force was shot down by militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray. It is reported that the winged vehicle was carrying personnel and ammunition.

No shots were fired at the destroyer Defender, reports Reuters with reference to the statements of the British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab.

Moscow is concerned that the United States has begun to deploy weapons at an anti-missile defense (ABM) base being created in northern Poland. This was stated on Thursday, June 24, by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko.

The captain of the British destroyer Defender, Vincent Owen, confirmed to the Daily Mail that a Russian coast guard vessel opened warning fire during an incident in the Black Sea that occurred off the coast of Crimea.

Russia will raise the issue of the incident with the British destroyer in the Black Sea in the OSCE, Russian Permanent Representative Alexander Lukashevich said.

Two military districts of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan have begun training to bring troops into combat readiness against the background of the escalation of the situation in neighboring Afghanistan, the press service of the ministry reported on Thursday.

The TSOS of the FSB of Russia provided video materials to the official message of the Russian Defense Ministry about the violation of the border of the Russian Federation by the British Navy destroyer Defender.

- It goes clearly along the border. At 11.52. I crossed the border! - there is a report on the command bridge of the Coast Guard ship of the border service of the FSB of Russia.

China strongly opposes the passage of American warships through the Taiwan Strait, according to a statement issued by the Eastern Zone of the Combat Command of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) in connection with the passage through the strait on the eve of the US Navy destroyer Curtis Wilbur.

For the first time since the Second World War, US Air Force aircraft flew a combat mission from a foreign aircraft carrier. This was reported by CNN on June 23.

Terrorists create computer games that involve users in game situations of committing terrorist attacks, said Alexander Bortnikov, director of the FSB of Russia.

The Sea Breeze-2021 military exercises, which will be held on the territory of Ukraine and in the Black Sea from June 28 to July 10, "encourage militaristic sentiments in Kiev," Moscow calls on the United States and its allies to abandon the practice of military operations in the region.

The deployment of attack missiles and anti-missile defense systems in the Asia-Pacific region will pose a danger to the eastern regions of the Russian Federation, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

"After the withdrawal of NATO forces, we can expect a resumption of civil war with all the negative consequences: further deterioration of the population's life, mass migration, and the spread of extremism to neighboring states," Shoigu said at the IX Moscow Conference on International Security.

The current situation in Europe requires urgent decisions to de-escalate it. This was announced by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the 9th Moscow Conference on International Security on Wednesday.

Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin accused the US special services of involvement in the preparation of an armed rebellion in the republic.